UK Subs - Peel Sessions - 140-Gram Yellow Colored Vinyl - VINYL LP

Double vinyl LP pressing. At the beginning of the 2000's, Rilo Kiley was a fiercely independent band, having released an EP under their own Rilo Records tag. But, even with only very minimal touring outside of southern California, their brilliant live show and excellent songcraft started to attract a fair amount of national attention in publications like Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone, and even some airplay on MTV. The band initially self-released Take Offs and Landings before signing to Barsuk, who promptly reissued the album.

From the maniacal opening notes and carnival barker howlthat launch the album, The Ugly Organ wasted no timesearing itself into a listener's ears and quickly establishedCursive as a musical force with which to be reckoned. A self-aware examination of artistic constraints (or lack thereof),relationships, S*x, and the intersection of all three, The UglyOrgan wowed critics and audiences alike with it's cerebral,cathartic blend of songs.Fiercely intelligent and cohesive - the liner notes laid thesongs out like a play, complete with stage directions - acrossit's diverse sonic landscape, the album landed Cursive on theSunday Arts & Leisure section cover of The New York Times(which also called it Incha marvelous collection of riddles andleft turns, conceived as a single piece of musical theaterInch)and earned accolades from Rolling Stone (Incha brilliant leapforwardInch), Entertainment Weekly, Billboard, Alternative Press,MAGNET (InchThe best punk record you'll hear all yearInch),Esquire, and SPIN, among many others, as well as a placeon numerous year-end best lists.The Ugly Organ feels as vibrant and vital today as it didupon more than 20 years ago. A landmark album,it not only catapulted Cursive from the simmering indieunderground to the forefront of a genre, but also served toinspire a host of young bands in it's wake.

In his first solo piano for Whirlwind - 'Nation Divided' - George Colligan takes a lead from Duke Ellington's quoted notion that Inchthis is not piano. This is dreamingInch. The Portland-based pianist and multi-instrumentalist is known for numerous sideman appearances on the bandstand with names such as Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, Don Byron, Cassandra Wilson, and can be found on over a hundred album recordings (including 2017's 'More Powerful' - WR4708). But, as he elucidates, this is different InchAfter a lot of trio and ensemble records, I wanted to get back to the piano to clear the air and represent my thoughts again in solitude. The whole session was captured in a single day by respected pianist David Goldblatt in his basement studioInch. Finding a correlation between the written and the spontaneous, some of Colligan's pieces are fully improvised, others through-composed, or they combine elements of both. InchI love Ellington's idea that it doesn't matter what it is - it's just dreamingInch, he explains. I like to let things happen, but on 'the road less travelled' rather than the familiar; and in musical conversations with myself, I can take as many risks as I wish. A recurrent restlessness in Colligan's thirteen originals is validated by provocatively-named title track 'Nation Divided', it's two different keys and motifs agitatedly attempting to link up but never quite making it.Wounds Of Another Time / Closure / Between Two Worlds / Street Fight / Blues For Charleston / Nights Of Passion / The Strength To Move On / Nation Divided / Prelude / If That's All There Is To Say / Cognac Logic / Sentimental Foolishness / Saddest Of All Keys